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Adequacy of TCC Training: Knowledge and Skills

How adequately did the employee’s TCC training prepare him/her in the following areas?

39% 52%

40% 41% 47% 39% 39% 43% 44%

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Adequacy of TCC Training: Knowledge and Skills

• Across the board, employers gave high ratings to all knowledge and skill categories. The technical areas, especially, received highratings: Technical Skills and Technical Knowledge both were rated as “adequate” or “more than adequate” by 98% of respondents.

• Math skills have improved over the previous years. Historically, math skills have received some of the lowest ratings, but in spring 2007,97% of respondents rated math skills as “adequate” or “more than adequate”.

• The only categories which were rated as “adequate” or “more than adequate” by less than 95% of the respondents were Thinking Creatively (93%) and Solving Problems (88%).


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Ratings of Employee: Professional Behaviors

Please rate the employee on the following professional behaviors:

Professional Behaviors Rated "Adequate"

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Ratings of Employee: Professional Behaviors

• At least 90% of all respondents rated all professional behaviors as “adequate.”

• The two behaviors which deal most with interpersonal relations— Cooperation with Others and Dependability— received the highestratings.

• Decision-Making Skills, which has historically been rated somewhat lower than the others, received “needs improvement” ratings more often than the other behaviors.


Evaluation of TCC Education: Occupational/Technical Training

Overall, how would you rate TCC with respect to occupational/technical training?*

60% 52%

50% 42%

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*Ratings from employers of graduates in occupational/technical programs only

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Evaluation of TCC Education: General Education

Overall, how would you rate TCC with respect to providing general education?

College Transfer Occu/Tech

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Evaluation of TCC Education: Occupational/Technical Training and General Education

• Overall, TCC was rated as “excellent” or “good” by 94% of the respondents with respect to occupational/technical training and by 91% of the respondents with respect to general education.

• With respect to general education, employers of graduates from college transfer programs tended to provide higher ratings more often than employers of graduates from occupational/technical programs.


Overall Evaluation of Job Performance

In general, your overall rating of the employee’s job performance is:

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Readiness to Employ TCC Graduates in the Future

• An overwhelming majority of employers (97%) stated that they would hire another TCC graduate in the future, if possible.

• Only three employers reported that they would not hire another graduate from the same program. Of these, two explained that they preferred the employee to have a bachelor’s degree.

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